WordPress News

In reaction to recent criticism about a lack of rules or best practices for WordPress theme development, I've compiled an overview of resources to help developers create themes according to best practices.

Sorry for the shameless plug, but I thought I'd share my interview with Code Poet. I talked about my path into web development and WordPress, but also went into some depth about Post Status.

Tom McFarlin makes a well-reasoned article on his issues with the way the WordPress plugin repository works. I disagree with some of what he says, but he definitely makes some great points. I especially agree that the repository is extremely…

Do you take your online freedoms seriously? Then this plugin may be for you. Chris Reynolds has released Cat Signal to showcase  a modal box or banner whenever the Internet Defense League has an active campaign running.

Jamie Marsland, of PootlePress, has done a nice video interview with Matty Cohen, WooThemes Product Manager and Senior Developer.

In Siobhan McKeown's latest post on Smashing Magazine, she shares some really great advice from some of the top folks in the industry. It's a must read if you work with WordPress professionally.

Initial plans for applying to Google's Summer of Code (GSoC) are coming together on the Make Core blog. It's a good opportunity to mentor someone if you've got the chops.

John Saddington writes on Tentblogger just what makes it so special to meet someone in person that you know online. It gives you an opportunity to view them in a whole new way. It's great to then be able to…